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Active Message Threads for May 2012

Hi
My understanding is that magnitudes are connected to origins (at least
in the iris database). But from the returned xml, there is no obvious
connection except maybe by the ordering of the elements.
Looking at the quakeml documentation, it looks like a magnitude can
have an "originID" element. Could that be populated, when known, so
that the magnitude to origin connection is explicit?
thanks,
Philip

Hi
This url returns 2 copies of the PDE-M origin. Is this a bug or is it
because the PDE-M origin is in both the PDE and ISC catalogs?
http://www.iris.edu/ws/event/query?minmag=5&starttime=2000-06-08T12%3A21%3A00&endtime=2000-06-08T12%3A22%3A00&includeallmagnitudes=yes&orderby=time&preferredonly=no
thanks
Philip

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Hi
A couple of questions about the event web service.
1) What is the intended meaning of "includeallmagnitudes"? I appears
to me that it means include zero or one magnitude, but never includes
more than that. For example this query finds one origin and one
magnitude:
http://www.iris.edu/ws/event/query?minmag=5&starttime=2000-06-08T12%3A10%3A00&endtime=2000-06-08T13%3A00%3A00&includeallmagnitudes=yes&orderby=time
The same query except dropping the includeallmagnitudes gives one
origin with...
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Hi All,
Does anyone know a way of requesting decimated broadband data, for
example BHZ data decimated to 4sps? I have tried using the ws-timeseries
url query by adding the "deci=4" option, but this only seems to retrieve
data from a select few stations.
Any help would be much appreciated!
Many thanks and best wishes,
Elizabeth.
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Elizabeth Entwistle
PhD Student
School of GeoSciences
Grant Institute
The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
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Hello IRIS web service users,
The DMC has released a production version of a ws-traveltime service.
This version (as compared to the Beta version released last week)
contains minor changes related to output formatting and is based on the
recently released Version 2.1 of the TauP Toolkit package from USC.
(More information on the TauP toolkit can be found at
http://www.seis.sc.edu/TauP/)
Standard IRIS documentation with example queries, the URL Builder, and
even the actual service ca...
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Hello IRIS web service users,
The DMC has released a shiny new beta version of a ws-traveltime
service. This service is based on TauP Toolkit package (v. 2.0) from
USC. More information on the TauP toolkit can be found at
http://www.seis.sc.edu/TauP/
Standard IRIS documentation, example queries and URL Builder can all be
accessed from the following link: http://www.iris.edu/wsbeta/traveltime/
We're hoping to push the service into production next week. Any
feedback is appreciated.
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Hi.
FYI: on http://www.iris.edu/ws/resp/, the URL builder link is broken. It
takes me to http://www.iris.edu/ws/resp/URLBASE/builder/resp/, which does
not exist.
When I do go to the builder at http://www.iris.edu/ws/builder/resp/, it
builds for wsbeta instead of ws.
Thought you'd want to know...
-- John

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Hello webservice users,
The DMC has updated it's ws-bulkdataselect, ws-dataselect and ws-timeseries webservices
http://www.iris.edu/ws/bulkdataselect
http://www.iris.edu/ws/dataselect
http://www.iris.edu/ws/timeseries
User's of the DMC's FetchBulkData script should update to the latest version if you wish to select
data with microsecond resolution, older versions should continue to work as usual if microseconds
are not specified.
Users of the DMC's IRIS-WS library or MATLAB irisFetch.m ar...
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